Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 15 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 227 296 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.96% 10.49% 6.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.92% 32.28% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 120 176 300
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -2.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £106,250 £83,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £59,425
% change year-on-year -7.41% +13.59% -3.69%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 650 917 1,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.21% 32.49% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 472 603 1,573
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £86,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -16 94 £55,000 -12.70% 62
Oxfordshire -5 70 £70,000 +12.00% 49
Buckinghamshire -4 63 £60,000 +1.69% 37
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.44%) Camunda
3 1 (0.44%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 60 (26.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (47.58%) Azure
2 89 (39.21%) Power Platform
3 56 (24.67%) AWS
4 40 (17.62%) Azure AI
5 24 (10.57%) GCP
6 23 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (4.85%) SaaS
9 10 (4.41%) Serverless
10 9 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (3.08%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.64%) GitHub
14 5 (2.20%) dbt
15 4 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (1.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.96%) Firewall
2 4 (1.76%) DNS
3 3 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.32%) MQTT
3 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.88%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.44%) 5G
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.44%) Intranet
5 1 (0.44%) MIMO
5 1 (0.44%) Modbus
5 1 (0.44%) NGN
5 1 (0.44%) SMTP
5 1 (0.44%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) VLAN
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.28%) Power BI
2 49 (21.59%) Tableau
3 13 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.96%) Metadata
6 8 (3.52%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.64%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.20%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.76%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.32%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.88%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.88%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.44%) Data Hub
12 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 24 (10.57%) Git
2 13 (5.73%) GitLab
2 13 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.08%) MLflow
4 6 (2.64%) JMeter
4 6 (2.64%) JUnit
4 6 (2.64%) Mockito
5 4 (1.76%) Selenium
6 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.32%) JIRA
6 3 (1.32%) Postman
6 3 (1.32%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.88%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.44%) Appium
8 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 113 (49.78%) Social Skills
2 61 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (19.82%) Finance
4 18 (7.93%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (5.29%) Law
7 11 (4.85%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Aviation
10 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Games
10 3 (1.32%) Marketing
10 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.88%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.88%) Automotive
11 2 (0.88%) Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (31.72%) Analyst
2 57 (25.11%) Data Analyst
3 40 (17.62%) Developer
3 40 (17.62%) Junior
4 39 (17.18%) Junior Analyst
4 39 (17.18%) Junior Data Analyst
5 32 (14.10%) Software Engineer
6 26 (11.45%) Senior
7 16 (7.05%) Python Engineer
8 15 (6.61%) Power Platform Developer
9 14 (6.17%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (5.73%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (5.29%) Financial Analyst
12 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.96%) Associate Director
13 9 (3.96%) Lead
14 8 (3.52%) Salesforce Developer
14 8 (3.52%) Support Analyst
15 7 (3.08%) Customer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.89%) REST
2 16 (7.05%) SOAP
3 15 (6.61%) .NET
4 13 (5.73%) JSON
4 13 (5.73%) Middleware
5 10 (4.41%) XML
6 9 (3.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (3.96%) Visualforce
6 9 (3.96%) Web Services
7 8 (3.52%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.08%) HTML
8 7 (3.08%) React
8 7 (3.08%) Spring
9 6 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (2.64%) Apache Camel
9 6 (2.64%) Hibernate
9 6 (2.64%) Jinja
9 6 (2.64%) jQuery
9 6 (2.64%) WireMock
9 6 (2.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.45%) Low-Code
2 20 (8.81%) Life Science
3 17 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.41%) Client/Server
5 9 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.96%) Hackathon
5 9 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.08%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.76%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.32%) Animation
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.32%) LIMS
8 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (15.42%) Linux
2 8 (3.52%) Unix
3 5 (2.20%) Windows
4 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (35.24%) AI
2 74 (32.60%) Business Intelligence
2 74 (32.60%) CI/CD
3 65 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (27.75%) Agile
5 47 (20.70%) DevOps
5 47 (20.70%) Software Engineering
6 46 (20.26%) Computer Science
7 37 (16.30%) Decision-Making
8 36 (15.86%) Analytics
9 34 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.54%) Machine Learning
11 32 (14.10%) Data Modelling
12 31 (13.66%) ETL
13 29 (12.78%) Data Governance
14 26 (11.45%) Deployment Automation
15 24 (10.57%) Containerisation
16 22 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (9.69%) Data Science
17 20 (8.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.81%) SQL
2 43 (18.94%) JavaScript
3 36 (15.86%) C++
4 31 (13.66%) C#
5 30 (13.22%) Java
6 16 (7.05%) C
7 14 (6.17%) VBA
8 10 (4.41%) Rust
8 10 (4.41%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.96%) Apex Code
9 9 (3.96%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.20%) Bash
10 5 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.20%) R
11 4 (1.76%) Go
12 3 (1.32%) PHP
12 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.88%) Fortran
14 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 68 (29.96%) Degree
2 39 (17.18%) Azure Certification
3 25 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (11.01%) Master's Degree
4 21 (9.25%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.29%) ACCA
5 12 (5.29%) CIMA
5 12 (5.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.64%) PhD
7 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.81%) QA
2 19 (8.37%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.76%) ECSS
5 3 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) MISRA
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (10.57%) Docker
2 12 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.85%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.85%) KVM
4 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.73%) Terraform
3 7 (3.08%) Ansible
3 7 (3.08%) Kibana
4 3 (1.32%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.88%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) Control-M
6 1 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.49%) SAP
3 12 (5.29%) VMware
4 10 (4.41%) Databricks
5 9 (3.96%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.96%) Oracle
5 9 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.64%) Cisco
8 6 (2.64%) Splunk
9 5 (2.20%) Google
10 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.32%) Agilent
11 3 (1.32%) F5
11 3 (1.32%) Juniper
11 3 (1.32%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.88%) IBM
12 2 (0.88%) Informatica
12 2 (0.88%) NVIDIA